Loading News Headlines for SaneScience.org... (Breaking News: September 19, 2008 - 'LHC loses liquid helium' - PhysicsWorld.com: “The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has lost up to a tonne of liquid helium after some of its superconducting magnets inadvertently heated up this morning, physicsworld.com has learnt. A log entry written by the current LHC co-ordinator at 11:27 am CET (10:27 am BST) states that there has been a “massive quench” in sector 3–4. Quenches occur when superfluid helium in the magnets rises above its operating temperature of 1.9 K, and can be caused, for example, when a proton beam veers off course.") Breaking News: September 24, 2008 - 'LHC on hold until spring of 2009' - PhysicsWorld.com: “The magnet failure last week at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) means that the accelerator will not be up and running again until early spring of 2009, say officials at CERN. To keep the project on schedule, the team running the accelerator near Geneva have decided to skip a planned test run at an intermediate energy and re-start the LHC in 2009 at the full beam energy of 7 TeV.") And begin creating Black Holes. Vote the BBC Poll - 'Switching on the LHC' - "Is it worth the risk?" The Large Hadron Collider Explained